Word: rodding
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...international affairs the daily practice of the salesman who prudently refuses to overload his weak or greedy customers. In treating gold not as a bag of coin to be flung on the counter every time there is a balance to be squared, but as a reserve and measuring rod, Keynes is simply applying internationally the practice of domestic banking systems as exemplified by the U.S. Federal Reserve System...
Scholar Baillie's popularity among Scots also grows from the fact that, while he has a fine sense of ceremony, he also likes common things. His favorite relaxations are walking and fishing; he prepared for the installation by three weeks with rod & reel at a Highland loch...
...William was plainly trying to spare the rod. He continued: "In England it would correspond to the 1906-09 report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law and Relief of Distress. But, of course, it is only natural that you in America would be 30 years late in discovering the spread of unemployment and poverty because your standard of living is so much better than ours. The NRPB report simply shows that unemployment and poverty exist...
...ball powder (so called because the grains are spherical rather than rod-shaped) is formed chemically, not mechanically. It need be dry and dangerous for only a short time. Nitrocellulose, immersed in ten times its bulk of water, is liquefied by various chemicals, among them ethyl acetate, much used in nail polish. The liquid nitrocellulose rises to the surface of the water as a creamy lacquer. Stirring breaks it into globules, like olive oil in salad dressing. Other chemicals keep the tiny pellets separate. Speed of stirring determines the size of the grains of powder...
...dimplelike spot on the retina (the fovea centralis-literally, "central pit"), which acts as a magnifying device to spread the image over a greater number of visual cells. In this dimple, common to the vertebrates with the highest acuity (some birds have two in each eye), there are no rod cells. The cones are slim and tight-packed. The other common denominator is the mechanism for accommodation-ability to focus the eye, maintain a sharp image of a moving object...